[cups.general] Omit pdf2ps altogether - howto

Johannes Meixner jsmeix at suse.de
Wed Dec 15 01:28:58 PST 2010


Hello,

On Dec 14 09:25 Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> AFAIK, a printer with a recent (level 3) postscript engine
> can accept pdf-files directly. If that's true it wouldn't
> be necessary to convert pdf-files to postscript by some
> external tool.

The rest of the usual workflow requires PostScript as input format.
Therefore, if you like to omit pdf2ps, you need to omit the rest
of the usual workflow too. This means that you omit all the
usual workflow which means that you print PDF as "raw".

To omit all the usual workflow for one particular MIME type,
add a line to your /etc/cups/ppd/<queue_name>.ppd file like
-------------------------------------------------------------------
*cupsFilter: "application/pdf 0 -"
-------------------------------------------------------------------
see the "application/octet-stream" line in the mime.convs file.

For more information you may have a look at
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Using_Your_Own_Filters_to_Print_with_CUPS


Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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